Cork / Corcaigh - pre-sale

by  H.B. ClarkeMáire Ní Laoi

€ 50.00

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Book Details

Published by Royal Irish Academy

May 2024

ISBN: 9781802050028

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ai_ria_ihta_cork.pdf

Available from ria.ie on 3 May 2024! It may be pre-ordered now and will be shipped/available for click-and-collect from 3 May. Available in good book shops from 14 May.  

Map 28 would be suitable for framing. Cork, 1851, by John Rapkin (Private collection, Adrian Brady); 29 x 38 cm (Rapkin).

This new historical atlas of Cork will explore the city from its origins to the present day. The emergence of Cork from a monastic settlement on a marshland site through to the thriving city we know today is explained in a thoroughly researched text, illustrated with newly created thematic maps, early views and photographs. Historic maps are reproduced on large-format pages, showing how the topography transformed through time. A gazetteer of over 13,000 sites and an accompanying essay give the detailed topographical history of the city up to c. 1900.

The Irish Historic Towns Atlas is a long-term research programme of the Royal Irish Academy. Since publication began in 1986, thirty atlases of Irish towns and cities, north and south, have been published. The atlases are produced following basic principles, making it possible to compare and contrast places with one another. Cork will join the cities of Dublin, Belfast, Galway and Limerick; and regional towns of Bandon and Youghal already covered in the Irish series; as well as over 580 European towns and cities produced as part of a wider International scheme. See www.ihta.ie for more information.

The Irish Historic Towns Atlas of Cork is published by the Royal Irish Academy in association with Cork City Council. Maps are produced in association with Tailte Éireann.

Authors: H.B. Clarke, Máire Ní Laoi

Editors: H.B. Clarke, Raymond Gillespie, Michael Potterton, Ruth McManus, Jonathan Jeffrey Wright

Consultant editor: Anngret Simms

Cartographic editor: Sarah Gearty

Editorial assistants: Jennifer Moore, Frank Cullen

Preview video

For Heritage Week, a video was produced ahead of the digital and printed atlas of Cork. The video was supported by the Heritage Council Stewardship Fund, in partnership with Cork City Council and produced by Frameworks Films. 

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‘Patrick’s Quay, Cork’, looking east, 1886, by John Gilbert Irish Historic Towns Atlas 2024 (Collection Crawford Art Gallery, Cork); size 21 x 31 cm (Gilbert).

Find out more about this publication

See the Digital Atlas of Cork